Three COINS for the Toutin'

I am pleased to announce that Val's Future Pennyillionaire Fortune was not forgotten by Even Steven this week. Coins were placed in my path, and I most certainly nabbed them. Just a slight hiccup when I refused the FREE penny offered by the School-Turn Casey's clerk to scratch my scratchers.

The week got off to a slow start, but on WEDNESDAY, July 5, I was pacified right after my CRAZY RAMMER encounter when T-Hoe was assaulted at the Gas Station Chicken Store. My new preferred parking space at Country Mart was occupied, so I parked next to the car in it. As I was climbing out of T-Hoe, all a-shake from adrenaline, that car backed out.

Follow the thick river of blacktop-patcher from the right side of the photo to the middle, where it skinnys-out between a dark blotch and a light blotch. My penny is under the light blotch.

It was a face-down, beat-up, 2004 penny, picked up by Val's hand despite the tremors.

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THURSDAY, July 6, found me running errands and pumping T-Hoe's gas at the Sis-Town Casey's. I got my favorite Pump 4, across from the handicap ramped sidewalk area. On my way in, I almost stepped on a penny! It was right in my path. There was traffic, so I went on in. When I came back, it was still there. Imagine THAT! I did not get a picture, just scooped it up to avoid being run over. People are not patient these days!

Don't strain your eyes! This picture was AFTER I picked up the penny, and after I pumped the gas. My face-down 1995 penny was straight ahead, just past the dark/light demarcation, in the sun. It couldn't have been easier to find if somebody had specifically measured out my path, and placed it there just for me! I meant to take a closeup of it in T-Hoe, but I forgot, and I'm too lazy now to go pose it on the kitchen counter.

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FRIDAY, July 7, I stopped by the School-Turn Casey's after stocking up on stamps. The price goes up Sunday, you know, from 63 cents each to 66 cents. As I told the young man clerk, an acquaintance of The Pony, "I spent more on gas to come get three books of stamps than I will spend when the price increases! I might just as well have waited until next week when I'm over here again." Anyhoo... when I started in Casey's...

Right in my path! I swear, some weeks, I don't have to make any effort aside from ample-rumpusing those behind me as I bend to pick them up.

It was a face-down 1981 penny, roasting in the sun. There may or may not have been a sizzle when my fingertips initiated the rescue.

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That's 3 COINS this week, for 3 CENTS towards Val's Future Pennyillionaire Fortune!

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2023 RUNNING TOTAL

Penny           # 61, 62, 63.

Dime             still at 11

Nickel           still at 1

Quarter        still at 3

2022 FINAL TOTALS

Penny           124
Dime              21
Nickel              7
Quarter             9

2021 FINAL TOTALS

Penny        124
Dime           14
Nickel           7
Quarter         6

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